I love it when I stumble upon a new feature in a piece of software that makes my life easier. I hope you do too.
That’s why I’m going to take a bit to go over some of the useful things I’ve been finding lately.
I love it when I stumble upon a new feature in a piece of software that makes my life easier. I hope you do too.
That’s why I’m going to take a bit to go over some of the useful things I’ve been finding lately.
During the summer of 2009 I made a big decision. It was early in the academic term and I had just received my first midterm mark.
It was 30%.
Never in the history of my academic career had I received a midterm mark below 50%, but this 30% wasn’t a shock to me. I had been spending nearly all of my time outside of the classroom working on what would soon be one of my largest projects to date, the Strips platform.
When I saw the failed mark on my midterm I took some time to think, as anyone should do when this sort of thing happens. I came to the conclusion that I had reached a point in my academic career where I strongly believed that I had the chops to build something, and that I needed to do it right then.
So I took the plunge. I dropped three of my four courses and spent the next three months working full time on the Strips platform.
This is its post-mortem, and I hope to leave this as a note to myself and anyone else who has the desire to build something.
I’m a victim of trends and it seems that some of my friends have been keeping rather good logs of their day-to-day activities. It’s about time I start contributing to this “internet” contraption all proper-like.
I’ll quickly explain where the hell the name of this blog came from. I took part in a musical titled Leader of the Pack during my 12th year of education. Thanks to Google’s book scraping, I can actually point you to the exact line I elocuted while crossing right, downstage of Jeff. I had one line and I got to wear cool shades. It was good times.
I think I may write my blog posts like my git commits. Mostly atomic, but oftentimes a ménage à trois of sorts. Sometimes I might cherry-pick posts from other blogs of mine, and sometimes I might, gods forbid, rewrite history. I’ll try to keep that last one down to a minimum.